This year’s Finnish GAME team is made up of two German students, Saskia and Florentin, who are studying at the universities of Tübingen and Stuttgart, respectively. Our project is based at the Husö Biologiska Station on the beautiful Åland archipelago. It consists of thousands of small islands that are located in the Baltic Sea west […]
In the modern world, our awareness of the human impact on the environment is constantly rising – but there is still a lot left to uncover and to shed a light on. And this is our pursuit within the GAME project of 2024 by running an experiment on one of the most beautiful and astonishing […]
Hello dear readers! We are Rania and Mélanie, two 21 year old students studying geophysics at l’École et l’Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre in Strasbourg, France. We took our first step into the world of internships this summer at GEOMAR and we’re happy to share this experience with you! Strasbourg being far from any […]
Hæ frá Ísafirði! We are Marlene and Julia, both from Germany and 24 years old, and together we are Team Iceland. Our adventure in this year’s GAME project unfolds in the breathtaking landscape of Iceland’s Westfjords. More specifically in the charming town of Ísafjörður – the capital of the Westfjords – with about 2.700 inhabitants. […]
von Lilly Rosenkranz ————————————————–english version below——————————————————————– Im öffentlichen Diskurs nehmen intersektionale Perspektiven häufig die Diversitätsdimensionen Geschlecht, Race und Klasse in den Fokus. Neben diesen viel- und auch notwendigerweise diskutierten Dimensionen spielt auch das Lebensalter in sozialen In- oder Exklusionsprozessen eine Rolle. Werden Menschen aufgrund ihres Alters ausgegrenzt oder benachteiligt, wird von Altersdiskriminierung gesprochen. Im englischsprachigen […]
I was probably about thirteen years old. I wanted to put pasta into a pot of boiling water, when I suddenly stopped and stared at the bubbling liquid. It’s not like I had never seen boiling water before, but I had never seen it like this. Instead of just noticing the movement and the steam […]
Under the sea, under the sea … are there only carbonates waiting for me? After a very successful first week of dredging and seafloor mapping on the M191 expedition, the team of scientists onboard the R/V Meteor entered their second week in lower spirits. Sea conditions deteriorated for two days, which introduced some of us […]
Adios España … Transiting to our working area Throughout our 3.5-day transit from Algeciras to our first submarine volcano site, the M191 science team had time to ease into the official work load and shift system by getting started on several tasks before the official rock sampling and seafloor mapping duties began. Whilst some of […]
We are Kyoko (21) from Japan and Lilli (26) from Germany and are working for this year’s GAME project at the Akkeshi Marine Station in Hokkaido, Japan. Akkeshi Marine Station (AMS) is one of the facilities of Hokkaido University and it belongs to the Field Science Centers for Northern Biosphere. The main campus of Hokkaido […]
The cruise expedition SO299 is gradually coming closer to the end. But before we are going to leave the ship in one week in Singapore, we would kindly like to get our Chief Scientist a chance to speak. Our expedition leader Philipp bravely answered our questions, and he gives us an insight into the planning […]